Salem woman who left mom’s body at store faces sentence

PORT HURON, Mich. — The sentencing for an Oregon woman who pleaded guilty to dumping her mother’s body at a Port Huron Township thrift store has been rescheduled.

Kelly Rhodes, 49, will be sentenced at 10 a.m. Jan. 2 in front of St. Clair County Circuit Judge Cynthia Lane. The sentencing originally was scheduled for 3 p.m. today.

In November, Rhodes pleaded guilty to manslaughter, vulnerable adult abuse fourth-degree, and removing a dead body without permission of a medical examiner.

Rhodes was arrested in March in Belleville, Ill., three days after the body of her mother, 89-year-old Mary Gertrude Grenia, was found wrapped in blankets outside Goodwill Industries in Port Huron Township.

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